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...Journal of the American Medical Association, which voices professional contempt for Macfaddism, commented: "Possibly . . . this is just a start and we may later find the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce considering the question of abandoning the name of 'Golden Gate' for 'Albert Abrams Bay.' Los Angeles businessmen might very properly recommend changing the name of Santa Monica Mountains to the 'I-on-a-co Mountains' in honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant...
...spent all his money on his tramps. He financed the organization of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo "union." He founded some 60 hobo colleges, several lodging houses. Bums attended meetings and classes for the food he dispensed, ridiculed him for his gullibility. He knew of the sneers, the contempt, but persevered undaunted with his benevolence...
...orally deleted about one-third of what he had written and in the following sentence interpolated as follows: "Little did the founders reckon that a time would come when the New Canaan would be largely occupied by men of the splendid Irish race, whom they held in deep contempt, or of the noble Roman faith, which they regarded with deep abhorrence...
When Mr. Snowden only pursed his bloodless lips the tighter, Mr. Churchill complained to the Speaker that "the Chancellor is treating this House with insolence and offensiveness ? I may say with supremely insolent indifference and contempt...
Grinning once more as he saw another opening the Chancellor snarled back, "I have been charged with treating His Majesty's Loyal Opposition with contempt. On the contrary, I have done my best to conceal and hide my contempt...